The design and production spanned over 2 years beginning with Thomas’s Andromeda typeface and drawing inspiration from street and roadside signage. The typeface has been designed to be space-efficient, legible and ultimately elegant. Madras features the simplicity of typefaces such as Helvetica and is combined with modern defining features of typefaces such as Interstate to create a hybrid typeface that can be applied to any situation.

The name Madras was chosen from a competition we ran on our Twitter. Madras is the street the TDF headquarters is located on, directly relating to the inspiration of the typeface.

With your donation we’ll be able to spend more time to improve and update our free fonts. We can add more characters, more languages like – polish, czech, hungarian, romanian etc. We appreciate every cent! Thank you for your support & contribution!